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Electric City Playhouse presents
Steel Magnolias
By Robert Harling
SYNOPSIS:
The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin Louisiana where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married) the outspoken wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town’s rich curmudgeon Ouiser ("I’m not crazy I’ve just been in a bad mood for forty years"); an eccentric millionaire Miss Clairee who has a raging sweet tooth; and the local social leader M’Lynn whose daughter Shelby (the prettiest girl in town) is about to marry a “good ole boy.” Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions the play moves toward tragedy when in the second act the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others but also draws on the underlying strength—and love—which give the play and its characters the special quality to make them truly touching funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.
"STEEL MAGNOLIAS is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing LLC servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)"
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Electric City Playhouse, 514 N Mirray Ave, Anderson, United States